Fundamental Principles

As of lately I've really been contemplating this "idea" of happiness we supposedly all share... 

Let me start by making reference  to Will Smith's character, Christopher Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happiness...he says something very profound, so profound in fact that I caught it creating a whirlwind of thought inside of me.

Christopher Gardner-The Pursuit of Happiness: "It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"



Now that, my friends, I call a travesty.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.


As Americans, it is in Our Declaration of Independence, our fundamental declaration, to reserve the right to pursue happiness. But lets step back a second and really think about that. I believe, in my heart of hearts, that was written within the best of intentions, I really do, but lets think of just how mass defining that became?!  Lets break this down.

pur·sue  

/pərˈso͞o/

Verb Follow (someone or something) to catch or attack them. First, according to the definition.. we could say to pursue happiness means to attack happiness.  Ironic, huh?  Pursing because of a want yet feeding its demise, possibly? Okay, well also to pursue means to be without, right? Otherwise there would be no need to "catch".  Also, "to catch" then gives the means "to chase", which then meaning that something is ahead of us, therefore future.  So, even though our Declaration of Independence declares the preservation of the right of the pursuit of happiness, what do you think that implies? Why doesn't it read "The right to be happy"?  Well then sure, the efforts of achievement or sustainability could end up in debate.  So why not say, "The right to the be happy as well as the terms that of which are self defined."  If its "terms" that then is up for question as being immoral or politically incorrect then wouldn't "pursuit" be subjected to the same interpretation? What I'm getting at here is the question of whether or not our nation's definition of happiness has been defined in accordance with its Declaration obtain-ability right.  As Americans, do we truly believe that happiness always lies one step ahead of us?  As only a pursuit? That to achieve happiness we have to strive for an accomplishment and hope that its there?  It makes sense in our capitalistic world.  Be rich, have a big house, have nice cars, get married, all various standards that we are set to follow.  But isn't happiness our main goal, as people, as humans?  Isn't that the underlining motivation to our every action?  We go to school because its set by standard, so we do it to please.  We get married in hopes to not be alone because that's "miserable", therefore a marry for happiness.  For so long we have correlated our actions with pursuits of happiness that its completely logical to question if it truly is obtainable.   What happens along the way?  Or when we buy the big house or marry the spouse?  Its not like we think Eureka!  I am now forever happy! Hell no, we find the next challenge.  Some of us do find ourselves in various states of happy, but we find something else to work for to increase that happiness.  Which I'm by no means devaluing determination or the need of continuously being challenged, but if you think by accomplishing the next step is going to make things better for yourself emotionally, you are mistaken.  The value of challenging oneself or constantly striving finds its value in experience, which is knowledge.   Knowledge and Happiness are two different things. So then, when we don't find our happiness, or when its not given to us, we project blame.  We become bitter.  We curse the system, each other, or ourselves.  So then, instead of happiness we CHOOSE to feel bitter. What is feeling?  Emotion. e·mo·tion   /iˈmōSHən/ Noun A natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

"Deriving from circumstances, mood, or relationships with others." 

First.  Lets throw mood out of there while I make my point here because one's mood is relative and has to live in conjunction with other factors. 

Circumstances as well as relationships with others both live OUTSIDE OF SELF.  

So then, how we feel on things, as we've defined in our English Language is that FEELING is derived from OUTSIDE SOURCES.  That then leads me to ask, if OUTSIDE SOURCES, marriage, cars, jobs, relationships, etc are not making us happy, then they are also what makes us bitter or angry, right?  But then, why is it that people that have all the things that we strive our whole lives for have happiness, but then others do not?

The answer lies in perception.

per·cep·tion  

/pərˈsepSHən/

Noun The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. The state of being or process of becoming aware of something in such a way.

Synonyms realization - understanding - comprehension

"in such a way"

So isn't it then that we base our happiness on achievements based on the outcomes we see them have on others?  Logical enough.  If the relationship of X and Y has the outcome of Z, then if I have X and Y then I will have Z as well.  Stated that way, it makes complete sense.  But since we are speaking in the terms of challenges, I challenge you to ask Addition how well that worked out for him when he looked at the life of Division.

Think about it.  We all are individuals, and even if we aren't looking at each other in hopes of learning how to be happy, we are following standards that have been set for us in this life.  We all follow a similar life latter.  Go to school, go to college, get a job, make money, get married, have kids, retire, be cared for by our kids, then die.  But if that's set for us, then its not decided by us, as individuals.  Yes, we CHOOSE TO PARTICIPATE. But we do not form our own latter based on pure self evaluation.  But yet, but choosing to participate we hope to find happiness.  If by following that process true happiness is found, then I consider that dumb pure luck, and congrats.

Okay so.  This is all spelled out.  Happiness comes from inside.  Sitting in self-spection and evaluating TRUE WANTS, TRUE NEEDS.  Not bringing in any sort of outside influence to compare and contrast.  This process has been defined all throughout time.  Meditation, Prayer, Union with God, Finding Center, Peace, the list goes on.  But that's not what this post is about.

Okay so what? Be Happy.  That's wisdom that you can find on drug store coffee mugs, but we right it off.  Just be you, hell, just be happy. Everything I'm saying here makes utter and complete sense. Now what? Throw everything that sits outside of us away? Pay it no mind?  HARDLY.  That's missing the point all together.  Not only would it be impossible since we are subjected to maneuvering through the material/social world.

That's where the confusion comes in. We have completely disregarded the difference in definitions of two monumental human experiences. Here we are, century after century looking to ACHIEVE happiness when all along HAPPINESS IS OUR NATURAL STATE. Here's the kicker...

happiness  

Web definitions state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Take notice to the scale. Happiness range: (0) contentment ----> (10) intense joy. If happiness is our natural state, we can be no less than content. Next, the word "enjoyment" comes from the root word "joy". Joy noun 1. the emotion of great delight caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son's success. 2. a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something or someone greatly valued or appreciated: Her prose style is a pure joy. 3. the expression or display of glad feeling; festive gaiety. Okay, so here you see, joy is "caused by something."

We have replaced enjoyment with happiness, leaving happiness' original placement as a VOID.  Let that sink in.

Or in other words

                                                       

But by replacing Happiness with Enjoyment.. 

So do you see where the "empty" feeling comes from? By projecting happiness outside of ourselves.  Also do you see how Happiness being outside of Self makes it only live in the realm of pursuit?  It then lives outside of us, we can be near it, but not immersed by it.  And notice how enjoyment is completely gone?  Completely logical, yet we as a mass we have yet to shift our thinking.  Mind boggling.

That, my friends, is where the outside influence fits. If we are living in our already "happy" state we then can ENJOY outside things. You don't enjoy things when you are grumpy. And if happiness is achieved by an outside influence, it has to be taken. Think about this. Happiness is an emotion, meaning something we feel inside of us. So for something to make us happy we have to essentially, bring it in. Also, if we got it from the outside, we had to "take", right?

(Explain to me how a house can fit inside of a person, please.) (Guess this explains why everyone is "happy" during the actual physical act of sex.)

Lets talk about relationships, for the sake of an example.

If you think someone makes you happy, meaning you were not happy before them, they had to give you something, right?

So to not be happy before them, you were essentially missing something.  So a lack was fulfilled.  Let me demonstrate.

This demonstrates how each person feels about themselves.

Person 1 feels as if they are lacking the middle, which person 2 has.  Person 2 feels as if they are lacking the middle sides, which Person 1 has.  They each feel that they need these traits in a partner in order to be happy, to achieve balance.  It is possible that neither Person 1 or 2 is even aware that they feel that they are lacking, they could only be aware of the feeling that they need a partner to have certain characteristics.  Person 1 could say I need a partner who has a middle.  They "think that's important".  But remember, for it to be a need, it stems from a lack.  

So coming together they think that they can create a sense of whole, which in turn can grant them happiness.

So then, by theory, this creates happiness.

Now, surrounded by happiness.

However, we are still talking about 2 individuals, remember.

So really, there isn't enough happiness to go around.  2 individuals but only 1 "Happiness".  Look at how much of each individual is now left without.

So, lets now put back the Responsibility of Self into its rightful state.

Both people are now shown in their Natural State of Happy.

Lets see what happens when they come together.

Enjoyment now has a place.

Isn't that our goal?  Enjoyment?

BE HAPPY and STRIVE for ENJOYMENT 

Apply the concept that I used to demonstrate relationships between people to relationships of all things.  A car isn't alive and doesn't have a natural "happy" state, so that being said, isn't it then up to question that if a car doesn't carry its own "happy" how can it then give it to us?  Because clearly, we have for so long confused happiness with enjoyment, thinking that adding something to our void would create happy, when really, the truth lies in adding something into our happy, to create enjoyment. 

That, my friends, is our foundation.

Again, just food for thought.

One last thought- If practice makes perfect, why do we practice anxiety in the hopes of achieving future happiness?  

What we practice, we master.

OVER POPULATED

This post is about reproduction, try not to mistake that with "flawed perception of beauty", that's not what I'm trying to say.

We're beginning to be taught that the media is a terrible thing, I mean it gives us news and what not and is fantastic for that, but that it's telling young girls they are too fat.  Ya know what, it's so much deeper than that.  Lets think about this.  Its a mass subconsciousness of our species future, seriously.  Listen to me, this may take a few minutes for me to explain.  This post is not about how the media is flawed and that we are all beautiful just the way we are, bare with me as I get all this out and you will see what I'm getting at.

Skinny is in.  Skinny in a way that is not natural for at least what, 90% of the population?!  Think about this.. the body type that we have sexual-ized is almost impossible to obtain after a woman has carried a child.  And I don't mean that she doesn't work out or diet, she can be just as thin surely, but her hips have widened, her breasts have enlarged.

This is what we as a mass, drool over, men and women both.

She's a knock out!

But look at this... 

Clearly, she's not healthy.  That's a picture of anorexia.  Okay, now, its really important that you follow me here.  Again, I really need to stress that my point here is NOT that our perception of beauty is flawed. 

Because if I do this..

                                                                              

Both bodies would fit into that outline.  Essentially the same shape, right?  One is attractive, glowing healthy skin, bright eyes, toned muscle, the other with the opposite.  But isn't it interesting that the shape of what we know to be deadly is the same shape as what we consider to be trophy?  Think about this.  Clearly, I'll say it again, the difference in attractiveness between the pictures is the difference in health.  But the SHAPE is the same.

Next. Venus.  Do you know about Venus?  Talk astrology and she's the Goddess of Intimate Love.  What makes love intimate?  Sex. What does sex do, potentially?  Make babies.

Venus has been depicted by ancient cultures all around the world and all throughout time.  (How interesting is this?) 

Meet Venus.

Venus, the goddess of Fertility.  Look at those hips!  Her breasts are saggy!  Thunder thighs!  This was idolized, and not by just one group of people, but all over the world!

Now.. Lets take this over here for a minute..

life

  [lahyf]  Show IPA noun, plural lives  [lahyvz] Show IPA , adjective

noun

1.

the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.

Lets break that down, shall we?

"being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction.."

Okay so, we're alive.  Life defined with reproduction. What makes our species sustainable is the ability to reproduce.  Well we've always thought of that ability as creating offspring, right?

Our ancestors idolized big hipped, huge rack Venus by her displaying her capability to reproduce.  Just as how I said earlier that once a woman has a baby her hips widen, she can't manipulate their new, widened setting.  

So life is reproducing..?

Well, lets read a little further into that LIFE definition. "and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally."

So lets think about the world here for a moment.  And I do not mean the Western World, but the entire planet.  First, lets focus on the Third World.  People are DYING because of famine, children are STARVING.  "Don't drink the water."  People are dying because of the lack of accessibility to clean water.  There aren't sufficient resources to keep people alive.

But okay, furthermore.. its been said that Americans are greedy because we are obese and the rest of the world is starving, and we continue to dump out plate fulls a day.  I ask that you really think about this.  I offer this for you to consider..

Are American's obese because we over eat or because of WHAT we over eat?  Think about our food.  ITS NOT FOOD.  It's pumped with preservatives and artificial additives.  Why?  Because it then lasts longer, because it's cheaper.  The majority of what our diet consists of is synthetic bullshit.  Fake food is affordable, that's how we feed our families.  Yes, we over eat, we are lazy, we are fat, cool.  We could even get into American business and talk about how warped it is that pure, organic, healthy food is so costly.  All that makes sense.  We are able to over eat because we have such a supply of "fake food", yes, that's a huge factor in the cause of obesity, but that's not what I'm getting at.  Dig deeper.  This whole business of shitty affordable food had to have derived from somewhere.  So I ask you, what makes something expensive?

THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND

The common sense principle that defines the generally observed relationship between demand, supply, and prices: as demand increases the price goes up, which attracts new suppliers who increase the supply bringing the price back to normal.

Basically, think about diamonds.  Rare, everyone wants them, therefore expensive.  Back to fake food being so cheap.  Its cheap because we have it in oodles and oodles.  Organic, high nutrient food is expensive because 1.) We can't make it, the Earth supplies it. 2.) Everyone has a need for it, nutrient value for individuals  as well as for the supply of "fake food" production.  BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS TO EAT IN ORDER TO LIVE.

WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.  People are dying in parts of the world due to a lack of food.  Westerners are killing themselves with cholesterol, heart disease, obesity, developmental disorders due to preservatives, THE LIST GOES ON.  WE ARE ALL DYING FROM A LACK OF FOOD.  The Western rate is just prolonged due to our attempts to salvage the little we can get a hold of.

IT MAKES SENSE.

So lets go back to that life definition again. "and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally."

Western World adapted to food shortage by splitting the little bit up and adding preservatives to make it last, fillers to keep us full.  But point blank what I am saying here is this.  WE ARE OVER POPULATED.  We cannot keep the Earth's population alive with the shortage in resources.  We just can't.

Now, lets go back to the image of women that we sexualize.  Remember Venus?  Reproduction, a practice that defines life. Fertility. We CREATED offspring with reproduction when we had the resources to expand our population.  

We can't keep our population alive in today's age.  So how does reproduction fit into our lives now?  WE SUPPRESS IT.  Look at what we sexualize!  One of the world's most attractive women has the same frame as a woman who we know has zero ability to bare a child!  GOD, ISN'T THAT SO INTERESTING?! Its our mass subconsciousness knowing that we do not have the resources to continue to repopulate in the ways of the past.  When we have the resources to do so, we will start to have sex again with what we subconsciously believe will keep our species alive.  When we over populate again, we will slow down the reproduction rate all over again.  Why do we do this?!  TO KEEP OUR SPECIES ALIVE.  THINK ABOUT THIS.  We, as a mass, subconsciously know, that we could kill ourselves off, so we slow it down in order to preserve! 

And to think, its believed that the media tells us girls are too fat and no one wants them.  That's not it at all!  There is no one right body type, now, or in history, or in the entire scheme of things!  It changes throughout time due to preservation of the species. Yet, its taken so personal.. how silly!  Women that have had kids think that their bodies are ruined because no one wants to sleep with them, when really, no one wants to sleep with them because they hold a body that screams 'I AM ABLE TO REPRODUCE' and that's what we are subconsciously suppressing.  Fat girls are told to be skinny, not because they are ugly but because they are unattractive!

at·tract  

/əˈtrakt/

Verb Cause to come to a place or participate in a venture by offering something of interest, favorable conditions, or opportunities. "favorable conditions" We do not have favorable conditions in which to create offspring in, there for, the conditions in which are able to create offspring are unfavorable. Magazine titles should just tell us as it is!  No more "lose 10lbs to find the man of your dreams" which we think means "lose 10lbs to find the man of your dreams and start a family with".  They should read "lose 10lbs to find a man of your dreams and be physically unable to have children." Today's age is family is reduced to 2, you and your mate, no kids. Sexual relationships today DOES NOT MEAN starting a family.  Think about that, centuries ago sex was only acceptable inside of a legal union and women were to bare children, today, people openly have 'friends with benefits.' Which yes, times are changing, but how ironic is it that the time in history where 'friends with benefits' is acceptable is also the same time that our planet is over populated.  No way is that just a coincidence, everything is connected. The same goes for the acceptance of homosexual relations.  As our world becomes more and more populated, isn't it interesting that now we are more socially accepting of communions that do not create offspring.  Again, yes we can call it liberation, but WHY the liberation, think about it scientifically, all the way down to preservation of the species. Just think about it. So now, now that I'm really thinking about this.. lets move to something a bit deeper... THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF DIVINE ONENESS The Law of Divine Oneness provides the fundamental understanding that we are all connected to each other, and that we are all connected to the same Divine Higher Entity (God, the Universe, Source, etc.). We co-exist equally and collectively in the spiritual world as we are all composed of the same energetic foundation. In physical form, we also co-exist with the earth as a reflection of our collective Oneness. The earth then reflects back to us our human and biological evolution. So this whole post I've been saying that our sexualization of thinner women is a mass subconsciousness.  sub·con·scious   /ˌsəbˈkänSHəs/ Adjective Of or concerning the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one's actions and feelings. I mean it as just that.  Not to be mistaken as Freudian.   What if, WHAT IF, we are not fully aware of what we are sexualizing because we have no choice?  Not that we are Freudian subconsciously choosing to save ourselves, but that our UNIVERSE is out of balance?  If this were to be a Freudian subconscious effort it would be driven from the sole narcissistic value of saving our human race.    But, if its a UNIVERSAL subconscious effort, meaning, the ONENESS that I keep talking about in each post, then its us just playing our part for UNIVERSAL BALANCE.  As we over populate we use up all of the Earth's resources, we can no longer sustain ourselves and we begin to die off. As the Earth replenishes itself and has a surplus, if you will, of resources, humans, animals, plants, can repopulate.  Okay, so literally that makes sense right, like duh? Gotta live to eat, gotta eat to live.  But isn't what makes this so interesting is that we are changing our lifestyles, our habits, WHAT WE WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH, WHAT WE WANT TO LOOK LIKE WHEN WE HAVE SEX in accordance, unknowingly? So then, in regards to this teeter totter balancing act that we live on with all of creation, with us playing our part that we see within our species' reproduction is rationalized into our human mind with evolving perceptions of what we find as beautiful.  The struggle then is seeing the BIG PICTURE of creation.  Once that big picture realization has been achieved, is that enlightenment?  Is that finding and knowing God? Again, all just food for thought. **********************************************************************************

One last thing here, just a little food for thought because its kind of cool.  Lets talk about big butts.  African American men love big butts, right?  Big Sean does.  Or how's it go, "cute face, little waste, with a big behind"..? 

Check this out.

                                                    

STEATOPYGIA

Seen in ancient African women (mostly).  Africa is where we all came from.  Small bodies with HUGE asses, as a fat storage.  Its not about having a big butt on a body, but having a big butt on a little body.  That's where that came from.  Think about the history behind that one!

A Sum Greater than All of it's Parts Combined

I don't like sports..  They are on and I'm on the chair and it is what it is, I'm probably thinking about what I'm going to have for lunch or what pants I have clean.  Not my thing.

But! I love the National Anthem.  This post is in Tribute to the Sunday's Superbowl and what it inspired within me.  I don't even know who won, but I do know every type of cheese that was on the tray.  Anyway.  I paid attention to the National Anthem, and holy cow.  Isn't it incredible?  It's like, when that song is played, or sang, the world stops.  I mean it, think about the unity, its absolutely incredible.  I know you the feeling.  Everyone becomes united, and that fire feeling in our gut comes alive.  I thought a lot about this Sunday night and I decided to elaborate on this blog before I lost it.

During the National Anthem we're listening to our Nation's History, about where we've come.  We feel a sense of pride and how American we are.  But ya know what?  I don't think that's where the "fire" feeling comes from.  We think about where we've been together, we're feeling unity.  And that's the fire that's inside of us.  Last post I talked about Self Purpose and taping into our intuition, detaching from 'thinking' to find it, and now I might as well go to say intuition means soul.

So standing together like that, we all connect and we feel the fire that we all share, our united soul, our true oneness.  It's not our history, or our American pride that we're feeling, but its each other, and holy shit, isn't it incredible?!

During these moments of Unity we describe them as how we feel frozen in time.  Everyone is so there.  Not thinking about dinner, (future, not real), not thinking about how someone was rude to them at the grocery store earlier (past, not real) but everyone is living in the moment.  Truly feeling the moment, detached from thought, feeling one another, feeling that fire with ourselves, UNITED WE STAND.  It's undeniable how powerful moments like that are.  It can be overwhelming, and that's only experiencing thousands united, imagine billions! Imagine 7+ billion..

This post is going to be long as hell.

I, myself, have had a quite the spiritual journey, and it's brought me here thus far, but this is what I truly hold as truth.  We are one.  Not just with one another, but with God. We are each God individually, and as a whole, there is no separated power from 'above' that is watching down, well not exactly.  Hear me out.

I'm taking an Anthropology class this semester and something quite extraordinary was introduced: The Anthropologist Perspective.  (Anthropology is the study of people).  The perspective is that Anthropology is holistic.  Well first here, don't get me wrong, what I'm about to say WAS NOT taught to me in my class, this is all my own thought process after utilizing knowledge that I have gained..  Okay, so anyway, what holism means is that the sum is GREATER than all of it's parts combined.  So let's apply this to God and People.

God > Person

God ⊇People

When we unify ourselves, we feel FIRE, something greater than we ever feel in day to day life individually, think about this.

When we unify, we become stronger than what we are individually.  Its mathematical.  When we become whole, we become something else.  Let me give an example.

A tennis ball and a table.  The tennis ball represents people/God.  The table represents planet Earth.  Let's be realistic here, and say the table has a weak leg or something, eaten by termites, who knows.  That can symbolize natural movement of the Earth, Earth quakes, wind, hurricanes, etc etc.  Okay so you cut the tennis ball in half.  Now each half represents the people of Eastern and the Western Hemisphere and you sit them on the table.  They fucking sit there.  They don't move.  As the Earth naturally shifts, as the table leg decays and drops, causing movement, tennis ball halves slide around the table, but that's it. Then you cut each half into halves and you have Nations of people.  They now are able 'accomplish' even less, still stuck on the table, but move around the table slower as it shifts because they don't have the same amount of weight as they preciously did, so they don't make it down to the other side of the table as quick.  Cut the ball into smaller pieces and the process continues.  Cut it down all the way to represent individual persons and the ball becomes dust onto the table.  Think about dust on a real life table, if you flip upside down, the table top is still dusty, dust has ZERO power. The Theory of Relativity applies here just as the same as it does in the Natural World.

Okay, but think about if we never cut that ball up in the first place.  What happens if the table shifts?  That ball HAS AN ENDLESS POSSIBILITY!  It rolls off the table, into the air, hits the floor, fucking bounces, bounces all around the room.  The room now is the Universe.  If we would unify, we would have endless possibilities.  Because think about this, this is whats so holistic about it, you put all the pieces of that ball back together, and you get a whole ball, but what that ball can do is far beyond what was even imaginable of the ball pieces.  We would have never thought a whole ball would have been able to bounce, we would have had no idea.  But the ability to bounce is gone as soon as you disrupt any of its wholeness, even if its cut in half, you wouldn't know it could bounce.  You might have an idea, you see the rubber interior, and you can make an educated guess, but then its only a theory.  But the more you cut it down the more impossible it seems, right?

We have cut that ball down into exponential billions.

Getting back to America, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". Lets break this down.  When America was founded we stood as one.  We were a decent sized piece of that ball.  Liberty and Justice for all, equality, we WORKED TOGETHER AND AS ONE.  But we've gotten away from that, we live very Capitalized.  The rich don't want to give to the poor, the poor want to take from the rich, there is so much separation it's stifling. We truly live every man for himself.  Look at how much we prospered as a whole when we were originally founded, and look at us now. United we stand, my ass.

Imagine if the world came together, imagine how great it would be to live on Planet Earth.

Now okay back to God.  Talking about the U.S. was just an example on a very small scale.  I do believe if we come together we are the God that the Bible speaks of.  We tap into that fire feeling that unites us, the same fire that Buddhists mediate to.  I truly, truly believe every core belief of every religion is truth, we just misinterpreted them all.

Christianity says "I made man in my image"-God.  God made man.  Well, physically, homo sapien-ly, Larry and Toni Smith made me.  I am physically 50% of each of them.  Well if God created us, me, you, animals, water, all life.. then we are only him.  Together we create his whole.  Think about this, really take a minute and think about this.  Physically we all created each other, food chain, procreation, we are all connected, and physically we all reproduce one another.  All the way back to the big bang, so that puts us then at one with the cosmos.

Another interesting thing, is the big bang. The Bible tells us, as well as science, 7 days for the creation of life. Now theorists are beginning to say that it wasn't a 'big bang' but more of a 'big bounce'. (Funny, my reference to the tennis ball, completely unintentional.) Meaning BOOM- Life bouncing and expanding outward, as we see in space, everything is rushing away from a center. But the physics and mathematics of it suggests that we'll reach an endpoint and rush back inward.  Once the universe has completely condensed, it will BOOM- BIG BANG outward again, essentially a big bounce.  Now what I find INCREDIBLY interesting about this is- think of a bounce.  Up down up down up down = in out in out in out.  Yin/Yang, To be or not to be? Black/ White. What about that is any difference than respiration? Inhale exhale inhale exhale= the definition of life.  The Universe breathes, but on a much, much larger scale of course.  Isn't that incredible!?

So lets get back to religious texts.  Breathing.  The center of Buddhism  The focal point of Meditation.  Now, isn't it interesting that two of the World's largest 'ways of life' if you will, Christianity/Islam both pray.  Meditation is a form of prayer, with meditation you stop 'thinking' and listen to the guidance of your soul, with Christianity/Islam you speak to your soul, if we can continue on the basis that your soul is your piece of our shared greater power.. what happens when you unify the separate beliefs? You create a conversation, inhale/exhale, up down, MOVEMENT of a whole.

Now I don't know too much about Islam so lets talk about Christianity, because I do know much about that. So its believed that God is a greater power.  But just as we said, "greater power than all of its parts combined, greater than but also equal to."

Let's really dig into this.  Lets go with the idea that Christianity speaks truth. But has it been interpreted correctly?  I'm going to go as far as to say the same as it is for every religion.  They are all ancient, and I really believe our ancestors knew this.  But I'll save that for the next post.

Try to read everything that I say below as people living as a whole, use that perspective.  God is people living as a whole/one.

Luke 4:4 - And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God

Okay, so don't live alone/individually but TOGETHER.


Mark 7:7 - Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.

Teaching God in vain, as separate but not living as one. A Christian perspective, I don't mean just 'living as one' as love thy brother, because God wants you to, but love thy brother to because doing so is God. I mean that literally. IS GOD, not "is God" because that's living "like" God, but because when you do that you become.

Think about this.  "See through the eyes of God"  That's not WWJD, that's literal.  THIS IS WHY EQUALITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN DEEMED SO IMPORTANT, because that's what we truly are.

The Bible is real people, but its not talking about a Higher Power that is seperate from us, we unify and our power becomes higher, LITERAL.

I mean this from the core messages of what the Bible speaks.  Not just when Men are speaking because I think they misinterpreted the messages back then too.  But the Ten Commandments are good example.

1.Thou shalt not have any other god but me.

2.Thou shalt not make for yourself an idol

3.Thou shalt not misuse the name of the Lord your God.

4.Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

5.Honor your father and mother.

6.Thou shalt not murder.

7.Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8.Thou shalt not steal.

9.Thou shalt not testify falsely against your neighbor.

10. Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's house.

shalt 

Web definitions

Shall and will are both modal verbs in English used to express propositions about the future

Okay, first.  Let's think about discipline from your Mother. "You must not walk through the house with your shoes on." (My mom loves that one.)  Okay now, "You will not walk through the house with your shoes on!" Both sound like demands right?

Watch this. Let's extent the sentence.

"[When you take your shoes off] you will not walk through the house with your shoes on." Okay, duh.
"[When you take your shoes off] you must not walk through the house with your shoes on." Okay, makes no sense.

Now watch this.

1.You will not have any other god but me.

2.You will not make for yourself an idol

3.You will not misuse the name of the Lord your God.

4.Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

5.Honor your father and mother.

6.You will not murder.

7.You will not commit adultery.

8.You will not steal.

9.You will not testify falsely against your neighbor.

10. You will not covet your neighbor's house.

So the Bible has been interperted that to know, also find, God, you have to do these things.  But once we become God/unified, we just 'wont' do those things, right?

Because watch..

1.You will not have any other god but me. We will be one, will be God/Whole, therefore will be nothing else.

2.You will not make for yourself an idol because of equality, we will be a whole and for an idol to exist, there would have to be separate parts.

3.You will not misuse the name of the Lord your God. We will realize together we ARE God, there will not be separate parts, therefore, Oh My God! which literally means calling unto God will be gone.  Not the word's that we think are 'bad' to say.  We won't call unto God to create a action because its not like we have to call our own names to ensure we do it, right? "Jessica, go get into the car" isn't necessary for me to climb into my car. Maybe on lazy days, but I'm still actually able get into the car.

4.Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.  Living each day holy, meaning one.  Sabbath means the day of rest, rest means peace.  Each day as God will be peaceful, we will remember to stay intact as one, as holy, as peaceful.

5.Honor your father and mother. Creators, each other.

6.You will not murder. As one, to murder someone would be to murder a part of ourselves, which would be pointless, so we won't do it.  We will not murder, it'll be pointless.

7.You will not commit adultery. Now this one, to cheat on someone, would be to cheat on myself and would be impossible, because we would all be one, therefore, it wouldn't even exist.

8.You will not steal. We'd be stealing from ourselves, if we were One, we just wouldn't do it.  I can't steal my own book now, I only move it.

9.You will not testify falsely against your neighbor. I'd be selling myself out, which is impossible, because to be out there would have to be in, and as one there is only what IS. Opposites show separation, and as one, that does not exist.

10. You will not covet your neighbor's house. It'll be shared, meaning, part mine, I wouldn't view it as not part mine if we were a whole.

Do you see?  The Ten Commandments show how our lives will be when we accept God.  Not rules to follow.  And to accept God means to become One with one another, as well as everything in creation.  Realizing, that us, homo sapiens, is only a mere expression of our true existence.  I get that I'm getting really deep here, but to understand this, you have to see that it's 'thinking' which is only a characteristic of our species, we just think it defines us.  It doesn't.  Again, think of wings on a bird.  The bird could still live without the ability to fly.  We could still live without the ability to think, just not in the social world, the one that we created, right?

Anyway, another thing in reference to the Bible.  Moses, using the power of God, tapping into our oneness, separated the Red Sea. Okay, do you remember the story of Moses?  He was leading people out of Egypt and away from Pharaoh Ramses, "LET MY PEOPLE GO".  In essence he was leading for equality, oneness, okay so essentially, he knew the truth of what we are and lived accordingly. So he separates the Red Sea with his staff. Think back to that tennis ball and table. But now, that tennis ball is 15 lb medicine ball. Lets say the table is an Ikea coffee table, still representing our Earth, so all principles I stated before still apply.  The ball is God, or Mose's Oneness, and it comes crashing into the center of that coffee table, it still bounces, and sure enough splits that table into two. The power of that ball changed that physical planet, manipulated it, SPLIT THE DAMN SEA.  Isn't this incredible?!?!

IT MAKES SENSE.

Moses prayed before he did it, Praying combined with Meditation, speaking and listening to whats inside of us.  Individual but also as a whole, because we all have it.

Think of fire.  I've called fire our soul.  What happens when flames are combined, they burn bigger and hotter, the fire becomes more powerful.

All of this fits religion and science.  We act like it all has to be one or the other, but it doesn't!

I FEEL LIKE SCREAMING EUREKA!

What I find so almost unbelievably extraordinary is that I've discovered it as my truth by tapping into what I think 'feels' right.  Listening to whats inside of me.. and that's also what I believe to be true, and for the first time this is a belief system that I TRULY believe, because it makes sense to me.  Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying THIS IS WHATS RIGHT, I completely believe that it is, but if you read this and it doesn't 'feel' right, then its not your truth.  Whatever you find as your true truth, combined with mine, is what will make us whole.


ALSO!  Before I bring this post to a close, I would like to point out one other thing in reference to Commandment #9.  I said that  I'd be selling myself out, which is impossible, because to be out there would have to be in, and as one there is only what IS. Opposites show separation, and as one that does not exist.  Okay, so in reference to my "yin/yang/ in out, up down, inhale exhale" that I said defined respiration as the key to life..  Let me point out, that means Life on Earth.  Because when we die, we don't need to inhale/exhale, we don't go up or down, because we go to Heaven.  We "return to the Kingdom of God", we "reunite with our Creator", our soul returns to the Oneness.  Okay, so think about this for a second.  If we all become One here on Earth, then no opposites exist, meaning ZERO variance, right?  Everything becomes the same.  Meaning the physical all connects as one..  Think about it.  If everything that has any contrast disintegrates, and all what is 'seen' is the same.. lets say everything turns red, no difference in anything.  Or black, or white like light.  EVERYTHING IS GONE.

So.  What do you think happened to the Mayans?